North Sunderland, Northumberland.— The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the llth December, 1937, to stand by the Beadnell fishing boat Jane Douglas, which, with a crew of three, was returning home. A very heavy sea was...
SLOOP CAPSIZED Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.38 p.m. on 3rd October, 1964, the east pier watchman told the coxswain that two small boats were in difficulties in a rough sea and fresh north-easterly breeze off Brake sands. One was believed to have...
Heather Deane, Deputy Public Relations Officer, is pictured presenting two of the succesful participants with their prizes at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
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Pictured top left Matthew Edgar receives his letter of thanks and a goody bag from Andrew Freemantle, chief executive, RNLI. - View image in PDF
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A Dutch Life-Boat In Rough Seas. - View image in PDF
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Name AJfi & LG Undge Albert Brown Alec and Christina Dykes Aleiander Coutanche Andy Pearce Ann and James Ritchie Ann Lewis Fraser Anna Livia Annie Blaker Austin Lidbury Babs and Agnes Robertson Baidaycard Crusader Bingo Lifeline Blue...
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The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...
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On the 20th February the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Austrian schooner Voador du Fo«^a,with a cargo of Indian corn and figs, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a S.W. gale, when...
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on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...